Discourse Comprehension in Healthy Adults and Individuals with Acute Aphasia: an fNIRS Study (P3-6.002)

To test the hypothesis that functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) reveals activation of the language network (identified with converging data from functional imaging and lesion studies) in healthy controls and both perilesional and right hemisphere cortical regions in persons with acute aphasia (PWA) after stroke during discourse comprehension.